An Ohio state Senator has proposed legislation which would ban families which are "too degenerate, too dysfunctional, and too demented to adopt children or act as foster parents" from ever doing so. The requirement to fit this description? The family must have "at least one Republican voter."
The bill, sponsored by Senator Robert Hagan (D-Youngstown), is still awaiting cosponsors in the Ohio legislature. "I'd like to see the Republicans disprove my premise," he said in a radio interview with nationally-syndicated Seattle talk show host Michael Medved. "It's obvious to me that they have decided that some people that they [don't] care much about, are not the same type of people that they want to see adopt."
This legislation is a semi-tongue-in-cheek counterpunch at Republicans who have proposed a total ban on gay adoption. "I would just like to point out," the Senator continued, "that as absurd as my bill might be in jest, there's is absurd when they're being serious."
"I am still awaiting the sponsor of...the bill to ban gays from adopting (Republican state Rep. Ron Hood) to come forward and see if he'll, in fact, support my bill." The Republican House leadership in Ohio does not support Hood's bill banning gay adoption.
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